Halliburton – BELIT Project

Juliana Quinteiro
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Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of

products and services to the energy industry.

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 GLOBAL WORKFORCE ISSUES FACING
HALLIBURTON
  Multinational Company, based in more than 70 different countries around
the globe
  Multicultural environment, more than 50.000 employees from diverse
countries
  Employee’s intranet mainly in English
  Corporate systems fully in English: SAP, Halliburton.jobs, PPR,
METTRO, HSM
  On-line training system with a wide variety of English content training
  A need to improve speaking, writing and Business English skills of the
workforce
  Company intensive growth, with agressive workforce hiring activities
  World of Opportunities – Internal Recruitment and worldwide Sucession
Management

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 LATIN AMERICA WORKFORCE ISSUES
FACING HALLIBURTON
  LA Region has 9 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru, Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela
  3 different main languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English
  More than 7,000 employees
  Annual headcount increase of more than 10% in the last 3 years
  Before GlobalEnglish/BELIT implementation - different methodologies to
assess candidates’ English skills across the region

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 GLOBALENGLISH BELIT SOLUTION
  Have a standard procedure for English Assessment within LA countries

 To determine which candidates have adequate English skills for particular
positions within the company

  Improve the Recruitment and Selection process

 To determine how much additional English instruction might be needed for
new employees

 Reduce the costs by have a single source providing English tests

 Have the tests applied at the Halliburton facility, by the HR Recruiter

 Have immediate results available with on-line reports and guarantee the
confidentiality of the information

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 WHY GLOBALENGLISH BELIT

  Halliburton already had a global contract for e-learning English courses

with GlobalEnglish
  Meets the technical requirements
  Offers correlation between available tests in the market (TOEIC, BULATS)
  Cost Efficient offer
  Possibility to have an integrated approach – BELIT / CLS

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 BELIT – Business English Level Indicator Test
  Halliburton is using BELIT for candidate assessment since November 2007

Total of 4.464 tests performed

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 BELIT PROCESS

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 BELIT X JOB
Required English proficiency skills based on the job level

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 BELIT

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 BELIT X CANDIDATE’S RANKING

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 BELIT X SECOND LANGUAGE POLICY

  Based on BELIT results, employees are encouraged to engage in

English class, in case of improvement need.

  All employees under Second Language Program – non GlobalEnglish

users – need to be assessed in BELIT every 6 months to be entitled to a
full reimbursment and to guarantee continuous learning.

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 NEXT STEPS
Halliburton is also evaluating the BELITPlus tool, which will enable us to
perform grammar and speaking assessment.

BELIT BELITPlus
Sections Listening Listening
Reading Reading
Grammar
Speaking

Score Range 0-787 0-1581

Levels 0-10 0-10
Scoring Computer Only Computer + Human
Scorers
Duration 30 Minutes 52 Minutes

Halliburton is also studying a project to improve and expand CLS usage in

Latin America Region

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 THANK YOU!!!!

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